Kårvalet 2021 – election results

The Election Commission hereby presents the election results in the union election Kårvalet 2021! Between 22 and 29 October, the union election was held, where Medicinska Föreningen’s student members had the chance to vote for a maximum of five candidates. The election results have now been compiled and the Election Commission can hereby announce the distribution of seats in the union election Fullmäktige (FuM) 2021/2022!

The constituent meeting of FuM is on Saturday, November 20th at 11.00. At this meeting, positions of trust within Medicinska Föreningen 2022 will be elected, e.g. President, vice President, secretary and the rest of the Board. Read about the positions here and apply no later than November 4th if you are interested in a position!

General election – election results
and distribution of seats

Members eligible to vote: 2631
Turnout: 497 people corresponding to 18.9%
Total number of votes: 1689
Average number of votes per person: 3.4 (min 0 votes, max 5 votes per person)
Number of candidates in the general election: 34

According to the bylaws, 15 of the 29 seats in FuM are reserved for section representatives. After the sections have appointed representatives, the other seats in FuM are filled by candidates from the general election. The sections filled 6 seats and thus there were 23 seats to be filled via the general election.

18,9 %

The turnout in this year’s union election was almost 19%, the highest since 2017! Last year the turnout was 14.7% and the year before 13.3%.

Election results

Candidate	Number of votes (percent of votes in total)
Mathias Holmberg	111 (22,3%)
Erik Söderlund	107 (21,5%)
Alessandra Ljung	102 (20,5%)
Sara Klyvare	80 (16,1%)
Matilda Varli	77 (15,5%)
Zusanna Bjurenfalk	72 (14,5%)
Sebastian Ols	69 (13,9%)
Alexandra Jänis	67 (13,5%)
Andreas Henriksson	62 (12,5%)
Annika Claffey	61 (12,3%)
Alexander Klaréus	58 (11,7%)
Edvin Edung	57 (11,5%)
Mirco Martino	57 (11,5%)
Zehra Nazar	57 (11,5%)
Manouk Verhoeven	57 (11,5%)
Hannaneh Yazdi	52 (10,5%)
Filippa Widman	50 (10,1%)
Casper Carlsén	45 (9,1%)
Gabriel Allgårdh	44 (8,9%)
Eric Bromming	42 (8,5%)
Victor Svedberg	42 (8,5%)
Leslie Nkwonia	39 (7,8%)
Heaven Weldeslasie	35 (7,0%)
Frank Ogiemwonyi	30 (6,0%)
Faizal Mohamed Mahroof	28 (5,6%)
Anders Norell Bergendahl	28 (5,6%)
Mehmet Kalkan	25 (5,0%)
Evelyn Olander	25 (5,0%)
Magnus Hellström *	19 (3,8%)
Mikael Yilmaz	19 (3,8%)
Martin Ståhl	18 (3,6%)
Lena Alm *	17 (3,4%)
Blank	14 (2,8%)
Samreen Malik	13 (2,6%)
James Kurdhelios	10 (2,0%)

Seat distribution

Members appointed in the general election	Substitutes appointed in the general election
Mathias Holmberg Erik Söderlund Alessandra Ljung Sara Klyvare Matilda Varli Zusanna Bjurenfalk Sebastian Ols Alexandra Jänis Andreas Henriksson Annika Claffey Alexander Klaréus Edvin Edung Mirco Martino Zehra Nazar Manouk Verhoeven Hannaneh Yazdi Filippa Widman Casper Carlsén Gabriel Allgårdh Eric Bromming Victor Svedberg Leslie Nkwonia Heaven Weldeslasie	1:a suppleant: Frank Ogiemwonyi 2:a suppleant: Faizal Mohamed Mahroof 3:e suppleant: Anders Norell Bergendahl 4:e suppleant: Mehmet Kalkan 5:e suppleant: Evelyn Olander 6:e suppleant: Mikael Yilmaz 7:e suppleant: Martin Ståhl 8:e suppleant: Samreen Malik 9:e suppleant: James Kurdhelios

* Magnus Hellström and Lena Alm were appointed by the Nursing Section (SSEK) as regular section representative and substitute, respectively, and were thus assigned seats as section representatives instead of in the general election.

Sections – seat distribution

According to the bylaws of Medicinska Föreningen, 15 of the 29 seats in the union council are reserved for the sections. All section boards may elect a regular member and a substitute to represent the section in FuM.

The three largest sections; the Medical Students’ Section (LS), the Doctoral Students’ Association (DSA) and the Biomedical Educational Section (BUS) may appoint an extra regular member and an extra substitute. A substitute is personal and can only accede when the section’s regular representative is absent. Of the 15 reserved seats, 6 were appointed by the sections.

Section	Section representative	Personal substitute
BUS	Sofia de Carvalho Martins Neves Pinto	–
DSA	Luca Love Lara Sweetapple	Marco Loreti Jessica Gracias Lekander
FOVET/PHS	Konstantinos Kalaitzidis	Robert Wittram
PsyKI	Philip Lindersten	Johan Helander
SSEK	Magnus Hellström	Lena Alm

The sections Artemis, AS, BAS, Fysio, LS, LoS and Kaustika did not appoint section representatives.

Questions?

If you have questions and concerns about the election, please email the Election Commission at [email protected] . If you believe that the election did not take place in accordance with the Medicinska Föreningen bylaws, you are also welcome to contact the Election Commission.

Kårvalet 2021 – election results

General election – election results
and distribution of seats

Election results

Seat distribution

Sections – seat distribution

Questions?

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Kårvalet 2021 – election results

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Election results

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General election – election results
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